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School Funding

Progressives Talk Equity, But Where’s the Plan for Real School Change?

Whatever else the 2024 election results indicated, they did not end the United States’ core political predicament. It’s not asymmetrical polarization or gridlock (etc.), though those are certainly...

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whole child

Banning Race-Conscious Education Undermines the Science of Good Teaching

The Department of Education's new mandate banning race-conscious programs exposes a dangerous contradiction in American education. While teachers are expected — or, more factually, required — to...

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Teaching

Using Sinners to Teach the Past, Confront the Present, and Imagine Black Futures

“He knows that every time this happens he’s moved just a little closer to that darkness outside. The darkness outside is what the old folks have been talking about. It’s what they’ve come from. It’s...

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EdTech

The AI Literacy Gap: How Early Adopter Districts Are Leading the Way in K-12 Education

In the two years since ChatGPT’s release, generative AI (genAI) tools have flooded the K-12 education space. Each day, educators and administrators hear new claims about AI’s power to transform...

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Teaching

We’re Not Teaching to Survive the Moment. We’re Teaching to Restore the World.

Teaching The Now As Sacred Sometimes, when I walk into a classroom or sit in a circle with educators or students, I remind myself: This is sacred work. Not just because it’s important, but because...

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Achievement Gap

Black Kids Don’t Need Saviors—They Need Systems That Care

It wasn’t so long ago that countless Black women were tasked with caring for white children. Nannies, maids, caretakers, these were the jobs available primarily to Black women. Black men, meanwhile,...

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